Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers, 10th edition

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MyEducationLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice decision making, practice the strategies and concepts they learn in the text, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.

Designed to bring learners more directly into the world of K-12 classrooms and to help them see the very real impact that management concepts have on learning environments, the online resources in the MyEducationLab with Enhanced Pearson eText include:

• Self-Checks. In each chapter, self-check quizzes help assess how well learners have mastered that chapter's content. The self-checks are made up of self-grading multiple-choice items that not only provide feedback on whether questions are answered correctly or incorrectly, but also provide rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. See the box at the bottom of page 73 for an example.
• Application Exercises. These scaffolded analysis exercises challenge learners to use chapter content to reflect on teaching and learning in real classrooms. The questions in these exercises are usually constructed-response. Once learners provide their own answers to the questions, they receive feedback in the form of model answers written by experts. See the box at the bottom of page 73 for an example.
• Classroom Management Simulations. The simulations engage learners in decision making about classroom management strategies. These interactive cases focus on the classroom management issues teachers most frequently encounter on a daily basis. Each simulation presents a challenge scenario at the beginning and then offers a series of choices to solve each challenge. Along the way learners receive mentor feedback on their choices and have the opportunity to make better choices if necessary. See the box at the bottom of page 73 for an example.

Additional text features and benefits include:

• Provides a wealth of guiding principles and strategies and step-by-step guidelines that cover all aspects of management— from arranging the physical space of the classroom, through planning and conducting instruction, and through managing behavior problems.  For some examples, see Procedures for Room Use on pages 57-58 and Procedures for Individual Work and Teacher-Led Activities on pages 59-61.

• End-of-Chapter checklists in most of the chapters summarize key guidelines for practice and translate concepts into usable plans. See pages 72-73 for an example.

• Case studies throughout the text illustrate key ideas and make the book content concrete. These vignettes show how good and poor practices can compound in their effects over time and provide opportunities for dynamic analysis. See pages 51 and 70-71 for examples. 

• A focus on elementary school classrooms provides those who are teaching or will teach at the elementary school level with content that fits that environment. All examples, checklists, case studies, vignettes, and group activities are designed for the elementary level.

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The most visible change in the tenth edition (and certainly one of the most significant changes) is the expansion of the digital learning and assessment resources embedded in the etext and integrated with the new MyEducationLab. MyEducationLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice decision making, practice the strategies and concepts they learn in the text, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.

Designed to bring learners more directly into the world of K-12 classrooms and to help them see the very real impact that management concepts have on learning environments, the online resources in the MyEducationLab with Enhanced Pearson eText include:

• Self-Checks. In each chapter, self-check quizzes help assess how well learners have mastered that chapter's content. The self-checks are made up of self-grading multiple-choice items that not only provide feedback on whether questions are answered correctly or incorrectly, but also provide rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. See the box at the bottom of page 73 for an example.
• Application Exercises. These scaffolded analysis exercises challenge learners to use chapter content to reflect on teaching and learning in real classrooms. The questions in these exercises are usually constructed-response. Once learners provide their own answers to the questions, they receive feedback in the form of model answers written by experts. See the box at the bottom of page 73 for an example.
• Classroom Management Simulations. The simulations engage learners in decision making about classroom management strategies. These interactive cases focus on the classroom management issues teachers most frequently encounter on a daily basis. Each simulation presents a challenge scenario at the beginning and then offers a series of choices to solve each challenge. Along the way learners receive mentor feedback on their choices and have the opportunity to make better choices if necessary. See the box at the bottom of page 73 for an example.

• Increased emphasis on the importance of classroom relationships. A new chapter–Chapter 2: Building Supportive and Healthy Classroom Relationships—discusses the importance of the relationships in classroom environments and helps new and future teachers understand how to establish supportive and healthy relationships in the classroom. See pages 12-29.
• A significantly expanded emphasis on diversity. New chapter sections, entitled Who Will I Teach?, help readers consider diversity and culture by exploring that chapter’s content through the lens of teaching a specific group of students. Among the topics covered in these features are issues related to culture, poverty, chronic absenteeism, students who join a new school mid-year, and students who are dealing with emotionally laden events. See pages 66-67 for an example.
• New coverage of many important topics in classroom management, including behavioral report cards (pp. 241-242, 249-251, 31) and social-emotional learning (193-194).
• Increased attention to the multiple ways technology influences and affects classrooms helps readers anticipate technology use, management, and issues. For an example see Technology in Classrooms on pages 142-144.